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etable matter is favorite food for it, though compost of muck, 

 ashes, and lime or plaster, proves an excellent substitute. Soap- 

 suds is an agreeable condiment. Frequent hoeings, especially 

 in dry seasons, hasten its growth. 



It is the natural tendency of the plant to protect and shelter 

 the head while forming, with the large leaves with which it is 

 provided. The effect of this is to blanch them almost to transpa- 

 rency, and of course remove all disposition to toughness, which an 

 exposure to the atmosphere would be likely to promote. When- 

 ever the leaves show an inclination away from the head, they may 

 easily be brought to cover it by placing them upward in the morn, 

 ing, and thus habituating them to grow up and cover the head in- 

 stead of downward. 



The U. S. AoRicuLTrRAL Society. — The Executive Committee of 

 the U. S. Agricultural Society had a meeting in Philadelphia last 

 week. The Philadelphia Ledger says of it : 



" Colonel Wilder, the efficient and distinguished chief of the 

 xissociation, presided. The object of the meeting was to arrange 

 certain preliminaries for the next annual exhibition, which has 

 been fixed to take place in this city on the 7th of October, and 

 which it is proposed to conduct on a scale of unexampled liberal- 

 ity and splendor. It was decided to embrace, as objects of the 

 exhibition, horses and horned cattle, swine and sheep, agricultu- 

 ral implements, cereal and vegetable productions, poultry, and 

 native fruits and wines. 



" A grand banquet, in which ladies will participate, was also 

 settled as part of the programme ; and it was agreed to appro- 

 priate |12,000 or $15,000 in premiums." 



We have a private letter from Philadelphia which states that 

 the good people of that city are arranging for an exhibition which 

 will eclipse that held in this city last fall. They have subscribed 

 $15,000 as a guaranty fund, and appointed a committee of ar- 

 rangements of forty persons, embracing some of the leading men 

 of the different professions. They will have to work sharp and 

 keep busy at it, before they will bear away the palm from the 

 Boston exhibition. — Boston Jounial. 



ExANTHUS Pyramidalis Florepleno. — This magnificent plant has 



